3 things: revised "Lemonade" chapter is up; ask me questions; tell me what to write

1. The revised version of Lemonade, chapter 17 is now up on ff.net. It includes actual descriptions of the blue insect demons (who do have a name, as does their world/dimension/planet/home; it just hasn't come up in the story yet), a bit of description of their horse-equivalents, and also some revisions to their weaponry. (In other words, their world is metal-poor and macuahuitl are dead cool -- actually, that last is all the justification I really need. *grin*)

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2. On a completely different topic, here is a meme seen in many places: What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say "I should write that entry about [fill in topic] I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

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3. On a slight tangent to that last, which stories are you most interested in seeing me post? I am feeling slightly directionless at the moment (mostly because a really stupid idea for a Code Geass AU with an extra fantasy gimmick has been eating my brain all day, but it is, you know, stupid despite the cool factor, and also has no plot, and the last thing I need is another novel-length WIP with no clear direction) so I would appreciate being told what to write.

the deeply stupid Code Geass idea I am not writing

I want this out of my head, so I am going to write up the scenario so as to (hopefully) lay it to rest.

The basic idea is to add one extra fantasy element to Code Geass (well, one element with subsections, as it were) and see what it does to the plot. Logically the plot should diverge from canon at some point, because otherwise there is no point to the extra element, but I have no idea where that would happen, because the idea is more a series of images and scenario-flashes from a dream I had last night than an actual story.

Right. So the extra element is... there is no way to make this not sound stupid, but dreams never make much sense. Anyway, in this AU, people are born with a sort of... totem animal? Soul animal? Whatever. Everyone has some animal (or mythical creature) that represents part of 'who they are,' so to speak. And for most people, that's pretty meaningless, but for some people, that part of their soul is strong enough that they can 'manifest' -- i.e., actually shift into the form of their soul beast thingy. Also, if you can manifest, usually you will display some personality traits of your soul animal even in human form (though not physical traits, except maybe coloring).

( All members of the Britannian royal family are dragons... )

So yeah. Like I said, a crazy idea without a proper story attached to it. Hopefully I will be able to move on and think about my actual fics now.

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ETA: So not only will the idea not go away, I have committed background/prequel fic for it. *headdesk* Made Manifest: Mother Wolf is 825 words on Marianne vi Britannia and her son.